Benny digit

Digit, 2010

Benny Digit ( Hebrew בני ציפר; * June 1953 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli journalist, writer and translator. Digit is the head of literature at the Haaretz newspaper and has published three novels.

Life

As the son of a Jewish-Turkish mother and a father born in Vienna, Digit studied French literature and learned German at the Goethe Institute. Ziffer's novels deal with the homosexual life and everyday life of Jewish-Turkish immigrants in Israel and sometimes caused controversy. He wrote his novel Zahl and his during a scholarship from the Literary Colloquium in the winter of 1997/98 at Wannsee .

In Israel today he is best known for his column in Ha'aretz , in which he examines the effects of television on everyday life in Israel. He also translated various novels and poems from French.

In August 2019 digit wrote after his return from a visit of condolence to the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank on his Facebook page: "On the way I looked at the Palestinian villages that are next to the Jewish communities, and thought that murder for the Palestinians a Kind of sport or pleasure, perhaps a substitute for eroticism. From this point of view, we will never have anything in common with them culturally. ... As for this wicked and unworthy people, we can only hope that the land will spit it out, for it is not worthy of this land that is full of Jewish blood that it has shed. "The journalist Gideon Levy criticized them Statements by Digit and described them as racist.

Private

Digit is married with three children and lives in Ra'anana .

Web links

• Literature by and about Benny Zahl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ayala Goldman: Being gay is no fun. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. July 9, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ If There's Such a Thing as a Murderous Culture, Then It Exists in Israel . In: Haaretz . August 29, 2019 ( Haaretz.com [accessed September 1, 2019]).